Boxall/Guardian Overlap List

[Leni]

In addition to the Boxall 1001-List, I like to read books from the Guardian 1000 list. For those of you who might not be familiar with it, The Guardian is a British newspaper, and in 2009 they did a series where they came up with 1000 books divided into seven different categories: Comedy, Love, Family and Self, Crime, War and Travel, State of the Nation, and Science Fiction and Fantasy (this category also contains horror and is more like “Speculative Fiction”). The Guardian list contains more genre fiction and popular culture, but doesn't get updated with new editions.

I discovered that many of my most memorable reads show up on both lists and decided to do a comparison. There is an overlap of 466 books (unless I missed any) between the Guardian and the extended (all editions) Boxall list. The greatest overlap is in the State of the Nation category, where 99 out of 134 Guardian books are on the Boxall list. I expected the SFF category to have the smallest overlap, because there is very little SF and almost no Fantasy on the Boxall list, but like I said, the Guardian category is more aptly called Speculative Fiction and there's a pretty high overlap. The smallest overlap is in Crime, with only 43 books in common, followed by Comedy with 47. Not really a surprise, as the Crime category is plot heavy and, well, the Boxall list seems to strive to be very serious. ;) Boxall and the Guardian also frequently agrees that an author is list worthy, but disagree on the exact book(s).

Because the Guardian list is category based, the same author can have books in more than one category. For the purposes of the crossover list I have kept it alphabetical by author, but have added the Guardian category in brackets for curiosity's sake (although I occasionally disagree with their assignations). I might slowly start to convert the titles to book links, but to begin with you just get the plain text version.

[Leni]

Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart (State of the Nation)
Adams, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (SFF)
Alcott, Lousia May: Little Women (Family and Self)
Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre: Fantômas (Crime)
Amis, Kingsley: Lucky Jim (Comedy)
Amis, Martin: Money - A Suicide Note (Comedy)
- The Information (Comedy)
- London Fields (State of the Nation)
Anand, Mulk Raj: Untouchable (State of the Nation)
Asimov, Isaac: Foundation (SFF)
Atwood, Margaret: Cat's Eye (Family and Self)
- The Handmaid's Tale (SFF)
- The Blind Assassin (SFF)
Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility (Love)
- Pride and Prejudice (Love)
- Mansfield Park (Love)
- Emma (Love)
- Northanger Abbey (Love)
- Persuasion (Love)
Auster, Paul: The New York Trilogy (Crime)

Baldwin, James: Giovanni's Room (Love)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (State of the Nation)
Ballard, J. G.: The Drowned World (SFF)
- Crash (SFF)
- Empire of the Sun (War and Travel)
Balzac, Honoré de: Eugénie Grandet (Family and Self)
- Le Père Goriot/Old Goriot (Family and Self)
- La Comédie Humaine/Lost Illusions (State of the Nation)
Banks, Iain: The Crow Road (Family and Self)
- The Wasp Factory (SFF)
Barker Pat: Regeneration (War and Travel)
Barnes, Djuna: Nightwood (Love)
Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot (Comedy)
Bassani, Giorgio: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Love)
Beckett, Samuel: Molloy (Comedy)
- Malone Dies (Family and Self)
Beckford, William: Vathek (SFF)
Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko (State of the Nation)
Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March (Comedy)
- Herzog (Family and Self)
- Humboldt's Gift (Family and Self)
Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale (Family and Self)
Berger, John: G. (Family and Self)
Bernhard, Thomas: Extinction (Family and Self)
Bolaño, Roberto: The Savage Detectives (War and Travel)
Bowen, Elizabeth: The Heat of the Day (Love)
- The Last September (State of the Nation)
Brink, André: A Dry White Season (State of the Nation)
Broch, Hermann: The Death of Virgil (Family and Self)
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (Love)
- Villette (Love)
- Shirley (State of the Nation)
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights (Love)
Buchan, John: The 39 Steps (Crime)
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita (SFF)
Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange (SFF)
Burney, Fanny: Evelina (Family and Self)
Burroughs, William: Naked Lunch (SFF)
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh (Family and Self)
- Erewhon (SFF)
Byatt, A. S.: Possession (Love)
- The Virgin in the Garden (State of the Nation)

Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime)
Calvino, Italo: Invisible Cities (War and Travel)
Camus, Albert: The Stranger/The Outsider (Family and Self)
- The Plague (State of the Nation)
Canetti, Elias: Auto-da-Fé (War and Travel)
Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Love)
Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda (Love)
Carpentier, Alejo: The Kingdom of This World (State of the Nation)
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (SFF)
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (SFF)
Carter, Angela: Wise Children (Family and Self)
- The Passion of New Eve (SFF)
- Nights at the Circus (SFF)
Cather, Willa: The Professor's House (Family and Self)
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Journey to the End of the Night (War and Travel)
Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (SFF)
Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep (Crime)
- The Long Goodbye (Crime)
Chéng'en Wu: A Journey to the West (War and Travel)
Childers, Erskine: The Riddle of the Sands (Crime)
Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre: Dangerous Liaisons (Love)
Chopin, Kate: The Awakening (Family and Self)
Christie, Agatha: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Crime)
Cocteau, Jean: Les Enfants Terribles (Family and Self)
Coe, Jonathan: What a Carve Up! (State of the Nation)
Coetzee, J. M.: Waiting for the Barbarians (State of the Nation)
- Disgrace (State of the Nation)
Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White (Crime)
- The Moonstone (Crime)
Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent (Crime)
- Lord Jim (War and Travel)
- Heart of Darkness (War and Travel)
- Nostromo (War and Travel)

Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (SFF)
de Beauvoir, Simone: The Mandarins (Family and Self)
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel: Don Quixote (Comedy)
de La Fayette, Madame: The Princess of Clèves (Love)
de Maupassant, Guy: Bel-Ami (State of the Nation)
de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine: The Little Prince (SFF)
Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders (State of the Nation)
- Robinson Crusoe (War and Travel)
- Roxana; or, The Fortunate Mistress (Family and Self)
DeLillo, Don: Underworld (State of the Nation)
- White Noise (State of the Nation)
di Lampedusa, Guiseppe Tomasi: The Leopard (State of the Nation)
Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (SFF)
Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities (State of the Nation)
- Bleak House (State of the Nation)
- Hard Times (State of the Nation)
- Oliver Twist (State of the Nation)
- Great Expectations (Family and Self)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (Comedy)
Diderot, Denis: Jacques the Fatalist (Comedy)
Didion, Joan: Play It As It Lays (State of the Nation)
Döblin, Alfred: Berlin Alexanderplatz (State of the Nation)
Doctorow, E. L.: The Book of Daniel (State of the Nation)
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A. (State of the Nation)
Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (Crime)
- Notes from the Underground (State of the Nation)
- The Brothers Karamazov (Family and Self)
- The Idiot (State of the Nation)
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Crime)
Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie (State of the Nation)
du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (Love)
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo (Crime)
- The Three Musketeers (War and Travel)
Duras, Marguerite: The Lover (Love)
Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (War and Travel)

Eça de Queirós, José Maria de: The Crime of Father Amaro (Crime)
Eco, Umberto: Foucault's Pendulum (SFF)
- The Name of the Rose (Crime)
Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent (State of the Nation)
Eliot, George: Adam Bede (Love)
- Daniel Deronda (Love)
- The Mill on the Floss (Love)
- Middlemarch (State of the Nation)
- Silas Marner (State of the Nation)
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho (Crime)
Ellison Ralph: Invisible Man (State of the Nation)
Elsschot, Willem: Cheese (Comedy)
Endo, Shusaku: Silence (Family and Self)
Enright, Anne: The Gathering (Family and Self)
Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex (Family and Self)
- The Virgin Suicides (Love)

Faber, Michel: Under the Skin (SFF)
Farrell, J. G.: The Siege of Krishnapur (War and Travel)
Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury (Family and Self)
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong (War and Travel)
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews (Comedy)
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Comedy)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night (Love)
- The Great Gatsby (Love)
Flaubert, Gustave: Bouvard and Pécuchet (Comedy)
- Madame Bovary (Love)
- Sentimental Education (State of the Nation)
Fleming, Ian: Casino Royale (Crime)
Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated (War and Travel)
Fontane, Theodor: Effi Briest (State of the Nation)
Ford, Ford Madox: Parade's End (War and Travel)
- The Good Soldier (Love)
Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India (State of the Nation)
- A Room with a View (Love)
- Howard's End (Family and Self)
Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman
- The Magus (SFF)
Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections (State of the Nation)
Freud, Esther: Hideous Kinky (Family and Self)

Gaddis, William: The Recognitions (State of the Nation)
Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga (first book only) (Family and Self)
Garcia Márquez, Gabriel: Love in the Time of Cholera (Love)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (War and Travel)
Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South (State of the Nation)
- Mary Barton (Family and Self)
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic: Sunset Song (Love)
Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm (Comedy)
Gibson, William: Neuromancer (SFF)
Gide, André: Strait is the Gate (Love)
- The Counterfeiters (State of the Nation)
- The Immoralist (Family and Self)
Gissing, George: New Grub Street (State of the Nation)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Love)
Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls (Comedy)
Golding, William: Lord of the Flies (SFF)
- Rites of Passage (War and Travel)
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield (Family and Self)
Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov (Comedy)
Gordimer, Nadine: July's People (State of the Nation)
Gorky, Maxim: Mother (State of the Nation)
Grass, Günter: The Tin Drum (War and Travel)
Green, Henry: Living (Love)
Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock (Crime)
- The Third Man (Crime)
- The End of the Affair (Love)
- The Power and the Glory (Family and Self)
Grossmith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody (Comedy)

Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Comedy)
Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness (Love)
Hamilton, Patrick: Hangover Square (Crime)
Hammett, Dashiell: Red Harvest (Crime)
- The Glass Key (Crime)
- The Maltese Falcon (Crime)
- The Thin Man (Crime)
Hamsun, Knut: Hunger (Family and Self)
Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd (Love)
- Jude the Obscure (Love)
- Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Love)
- The Woodlanders (Love)
- The Mayor of Casterbridge (State of the Nation)
Hartley, L. P.: The Go-Between (Love)
Hašek, Jaroslav: The Good Soldier Švejk (War and Travel)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter (Love)
- The House of the Seven Gables (SFF)
Heinlein, Robert A.: Stranger in a Strange Land (SFF)
Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (Comedy)
Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (Love)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (War and Travel)
- The Old Man and the Sea (Family and Self)
Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha (Family and Self)
- The Glass Bead Game (SFF)
Highsmith, Patricia: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Crime)
Hines, Barry: A Kestrel for a Knave (State of the Nation)
Høeg, Peter: Smilla's Sense of Snow (Crime)
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (SFF)
Hollinghurst, Alan: The Line of Beauty (State of the Nation)
- The Swimming-Pool Library (Love)
Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables (State of the Nation)
Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World (SFF)
- Crome Yellow (Love)

Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany (Family and Self)
Isherwood, Christopher: Goodbye to Berlin (State of the Nation)
Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day (Love)
- The Unconsoled (SFF)

James, Henry: The Ambassadors (Family and Self)
- The Portrait of a Lady (Love)
- The Wings of the Dove (Love)
- The Turn of the Screw (SFF)
Jelinek, Elfride: The Piano Teacher (Love)
Johnson, Samuel: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (War and Travel)
Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Family and Self)
- Ulysses (Family and Self)
- Finnegans Wake (Comedy)

Kafka, Franz: The Castle (Comedy)
- The Trial (SFF)
Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek (Love)
Kelman, James: How Late It Was, How Late (State of the Nation)
Keneally, Thomas: Schindler's List/Schindler's Arc (War and Travel)
Kennedy Toole, John: A Confederacy of Dunces (Comedy)
Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (War and Travel)
Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Family and Self)
King, Stephen: The Shining (SFF)
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim (Crime)
Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Love)
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Love)
Kureishi, Hanif: The Buddha of Suburbia (Family and Self)

[Leni]

Larsen, Nella: Passing (State of the Nation)
Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (Family and Self)
- Lady Chatterley's Lover (Love)
- The Rainbow (Love)
- Women in Love (Love)
Le Carré, John: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Crime)
Le Fanu, Sheridan: Uncle Silas (SFF)
Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (Crime)
Lee, Laurie: Cider with Rosie (Family and Self)
Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris (SFF)
Leonard, Elmore: Get Shorty (Crime)
Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook (Family and Self)
- The Grass is Singing (State of the Nation)
Levi, Primo: If Not Now, When? (War and Travel)
Lewis, M. G.: The Monk (SFF)
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt (State of the Nation)
- Main Street (State of the Nation)
London, Jack: Martin Eden (Family and Self)
- The Call of the Wild (War and Travel)
Lowry, Malcolm: Under the Volcano (Family and Self)

Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria: Dom Casmurro (Love)
- The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (State of the Nation)
MacInnes, Colin: Absolute Beginners (State of the Nation)
Malouf, David: Remembering Babylon (State of the Nation)
Malraux, André: Man's Fate (War and Travel)
Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (Family and Self)
- Death in Venice (Love)
- The Magic Mountain (State of the Nation)
Manzoni, Alessandro: The Betrothed (State of the Nation)
Marías, Javier: A Heart so White (Love)
Maturin, Charles Robert: Melmoth the Wanderer (SFF)
Maugham, W. Somerset: Cakes and Ale (Comedy)
- Of Human Bondage (Love)
McCabe, Patrick: The Butcher Boy (SFF)
McCarthy, Cormac: All the Pretty Horses (War and Travel)
- Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (War and Travel)
McEwan, Ian: Atonement (Love)
- The Child in Time (Love)
- Enduring Love (Crime)
McGahern, John: Amongst Women (State of the Nation)
Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (War and Travel)
Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer (Love)
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance (State of the Nation)
- Family Matters (Family and Self)
Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas (SFF)
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind (Love)
Mitford, Nancy: Love in a Cold Climate (Love)
- The Pursuit of Love (Love)
Moravia, Alberto: The Time of Indifference (State of the Nation)
Morrison, Toni: Beloved (SFF)
- Song of Solomon (Family and Self)
- The Bluest Eye (Family and Self)
Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (SFF)
Murdoch, Iris: The Black Prince (Family and Self)
- Under the Net (Comedy)
Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities (Family and Self)

Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada: or, Ardor – A Family Chronicle (SFF)
- Lolita (Love)
- Pale Fire (Comedy)
- Pnin (Comedy)
Naipaul, V. S.: A Bend in the River (State of the Nation)
Neale Huston, Zora: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Love)
Némirovsky, Irene: Suite Française (War and Travel)
Nin, Anaïs: Delta of Venus (Love)
Nooteboom, Cees: All Souls Day (Love)

O'Brien, Flann: At Swim-Two-Birds (Family and Self)
- The Third Policeman (SFF)
Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient (Love)
Orwell, George: Animal Farm (State of the Nation)
- Burmese Days (War and Travel)
- 1984 (SFF)

Pasolini, Pier Paulo: The Ragazzi (State of the Nation)
Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago (Love)
Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country (State of the Nation)
Pavese, Cesare: The Moon and the Bonfires (State of the Nation)
Peace, David: 1977 (Crime)
Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan (SFF)
Perec, Georges: A Void (Comedy)
- Life – A User's Manual (Comedy)
Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar (Family and Self)
Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time (Comedy)
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News (Family and Self)
Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past (Family and Self)
Puzo, Mario: The Godfather (Crime)
Pym, Barbara: Excellent Women (Comedy)
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (War and Travel)
- The Crying of Lot 49 (Crime)
- Vineland (State of the Nation)
- V. (Crime)
Rabelais, Françoise: Gargantua and Pantagruel (SFF)
Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho (SFF)
Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front (War and Travel)
Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea (Love)
Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (Love)
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (Love)
Rider Haggard, H.: King Solomon's Mines (War and Travel)
Roth, Henry: Call it Sleep (Family and Self)
Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March (State of the Nation)
Roth, Philip: American Pastoral (State of the Nation)
- The Human Stain (State of the Nation)
- Portnoy's Complaint (Comedy)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Julie; or, The New Eloise (Family and Self)
Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things (Family and Self)
Rushdi, Salman: Midnight's Children (State of the Nation)
- Shame (State of the Nation)
- The Satanic Verses (SFF)
Sagan, Françoise: Bonjour Tristesse (Love)
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye (Family and Self)
Sayers, Dorothy L.: Murder Must Advertise (Crime)
Schlink, Bernhard: The Reader (Love)
Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own (State of the Nation)
Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe (War and Travel)
Sebald, W. G.: Austerlitz (War and Travel)
- The Rings of Saturn (War and Travel)
Self, Will: Great Apes (Comedy)
- How the Dead Live (SFF)
Selvon, Sam: The Lonely Londoners (State of the Nation)
Sembène, Ousmane: God's Bits of Wood (State of the Nation)
Serge, Victor: The Case of Comrade Tulayev (State of the Nation)
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy (Family and Self)
She, Lao: Rickshaw Boy (State of the Nation)
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein (SFF)
Shields, Carol: Unless (Family and Self)
Shute, Nevil: A Town Like Alice (War and Travel)
Sillitoe, Alan: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (State of the Nation)
Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle (State of the Nation)
Singer, Isaac Bashevis: The Manor (Family and Self)
Smith, Zadie: On Beauty (Family and Self)
- White Teeth (State of the Nation)
Smollett, Tobias George: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Comedy)
- The Adventures of Roderick Random (Comedy)
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Comedy)
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (State of the Nation)
Spark, Muriel: The Driver's Seat (Comedy)
- The Girls of Slender Means (Comedy)
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (Comedy)
Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children (Family and Self)
Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men (Crime)
- The Grapes of Wrath (State of the Nation)
Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma (War and Travel)
- The Red and the Black (State of the Nation)
Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon (War and Travel)
Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (War and Travel)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Comedy)
Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped (War and Travel)
- Treasure Island (War and Travel)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SFF)
Stoker, Bram: Dracula (SFF)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin (State of the Nation)
Strindberg, August: The Red Room (State of the Nation)
Süskin, Patrick: Perfume – The Story of a Murderer (Crime)
Svevo, Italo: Zeno's Conscience/Confessions of Zeno (Family and Self)
Swift, Graham: Waterland (Love)
Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub (Comedy)
- Gulliver's Travels (War and Travel)

Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World (State of the Nation)
Tartt, Donna: The Secret History (Crime)
Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair (State of the Nation)
Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (SFF)
- The Lord of the Rings (SFF)
Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina (Love)
- War and Peace (War and Travel)
Tressel, Robert: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (State of the Nation)
Trollope, Anthony: The Last Chronicle of Barset (State of the Nation)
Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons (Family and Self)
Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (War and Travel)

Updike, John: Rabbit, Run (Family and Self)
- Rabbit Redux (Family and Self)
- Rabbit is Rich (Family and Self)

Vassilikos, Vassilis: Z (State of the Nation)
Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days (War and Travel)
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth (War and Travel)
Voltaire: Candide (War and Travel)
Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.: Breakfast of Champions (Comedy)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (War and Travel)

Walker, Alice: The Color Purple (Family and Self)
Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest (Comedy)
Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto (SFF)
Warner, Alan: Morvern Callar (Family and Self)
Waterhouse, Keith: Billy Liar (State of the Nation)
Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith (Crime)
Waugh, Evelyn: A Handful of Dust (Comedy)
- Decline and Fall (Comedy)
- Vile Bodies (Comedy)
Webb, Charles: The Graduate (Love)
Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine (SFF)
- The War of the Worlds (SFF)
- Tono-Bungay (Comedy)
Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting (State of the Nation)
West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier (State of the Nation)
Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence (Love)
- The House of Mirth (State of the Nation)
White, Patrick: The Tree of Man (Family and Self)
- Voss (State of the Nation)
White, T. H. The Once and Future King (first book only) (SFF)
Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Family and Self)
Winterson, Jeanette: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Family and Self)
- The Passion (Love)
Wodehouse, P. G.: Thank You, Jeeves (Comedy)
Wolfe, Tom: The Bonfire of the Vanities (State of the Nation)
Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway (Family and Self)
- Orlando (SFF)
- To the Lighthouse (Family and Self)
Wright, Richard: Native Son (Crime)
Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids (SFF)
- The Midwich Cuckoos (SFF)

Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We (SFF)
Zola, Émile: Germinal (State of the Nation)
- The Beast Within/La Bête humaine (State of the Nation)
- Thérèse Raquin (Crime)

[Leni]

Ok, my formatting didn't carry over, so I'll definitely have to put in the book links to make it easier. This looks messy. But that's a project for another day. Maybe I can just put a line break between each author instead. :P

Edit: I've tidied it up a bit. This is as good as it gets for now.

[Kristel]

Leni wrote: "Ok, my formatting didn't carry over, so I'll definitely have to put in the book links to make it easier. This looks messy. But that's a project for another day. Maybe I can just put a line break be..."

Thanks for doing this, looks like hard work.

[Leni]

It was fun, but it took a while. lol
Hope people find it useful. :D

[Pip]

It is very useful. Thanks for sharing.

[Valerie]

Leni wrote: "It was fun, but it took a while. lol
Hope people find it useful. :D"

Yes, thank you for doing this. I like to explore lists like this.

[Gail]

Thank you. A lot of hard work, but I appreciate the list.

[Jen]

This is interesting, thanks for doing the work!

[MaryAnn (EmilyD1037)]

Thanks for the wonderful alpha list ... makes it much more useful !!

[Jessica]

I started to drop the ones that I have read into a listopia, but ran out of votes at Cormac McCarthy. (so useful, i know ;) )

Here it is:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Shuva]

Thank you so much for this combined list!
I, too, am reading from both the lists and it will be wonderful to tick off two lists with one book ;-))

[Leni]

Jessica wrote: "I started to drop the ones that I have read into a listopia, but ran out of votes at Cormac McCarthy. (so useful, i know ;) )

Here it is:https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1......"

Good idea! Guess it will take five people to put all the books in. XD

[Diane]

Thanks for doing this, Leni! The Guardian list is one of the secondary lists I read off of, too.

[Leni]

In a fit of protracted procrastination I decided to put this list on Listchallenges. (And in the process I noticed a couple of typos and four books I had overlooked - all fixed now.)

So if you want the satisfaction of checking the books off the overlap list, just go here:

https://www.listchallenges.com/the-bo...

[Tatjana]

Leni wrote: "In a fit of protracted procrastination I decided to put this list on Listchallenges. (And in the process I noticed a couple of typos and four books I had overlooked - all fixed now.)

So if you wan..."
Leni, you missed Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell) in Listchalleges, as well as in your second post ;)

[Leni]

Tatjana wrote: "Leni, you missed Mary Barton (Elizabeth Gaskell) in Listchalleges, as well as in your second post ;)

..."

Drat, so I did. Thanks. Peculiar, since I quite like Gaskell (but I haven't read Mary Barton yet).

Sadly I can't add books in Listchallenges once the list has been published, but I have fixed it in the post here.

[Kristel]

Always a sucker for list. I forgot about Leni posting this but found it today.
✔Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart (State of the Nation)
✔, Douglas: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (SFF)
✔Alcott, Lousia May: Little Women (Family and Self)
Allain, Marcel and Pierre Souvestre: Fantômas (Crime)
✔Amis, Kingsley: Lucky Jim (Comedy)
✔Amis, Martin: Money - A Suicide Note (Comedy)
- The Information (Comedy)
✔ London Fields (State of the Nation)
✔Anand, Mulk Raj: Untouchable (State of the Nation)
✔Asimov, Isaac: Foundation (SFF)
✔Atwood, Margaret: Cat's Eye (Family and Self)
✔ The Handmaid's Tale (SFF)
✔ The Blind Assassin (SFF)
✔Austen, Jane: Sense and Sensibility (Love)
✔ Pride and Prejudice (Love)
✔ Mansfield Park (Love)
✔ Emma (Love)
✔ Northanger Abbey (Love)
✔ Persuasion (Love)
✔ Auster, Paul: The New York Trilogy (Crime)

✔Baldwin, James: Giovanni's Room (Love)
✔Go Tell It on the Mountain (State of the Nation)
✔Ballard, J. G.: The Drowned World (SFF)
✔ Crash (SFF)
✔ Empire of the Sun (War and Travel)
- Balzac, Honoré de: Eugénie Grandet (Family and Self)
✔ Le Père Goriot/Old Goriot (Family and Self)
- La Comédie Humaine/Lost Illusions (State of the Nation)
Banks, Iain: The Crow Road (Family and Self)
- The Wasp Factory (SFF)
✔ Barker Pat: Regeneration (War and Travel)
Barnes, Djuna: Nightwood (Love)
✔ Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot (Comedy)
Bassani, Giorgio: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Love)
✔ Beckett, Samuel: Molloy (Comedy)
- Malone Dies (Family and Self)
✔ Beckford, William: Vathek (SFF)
✔ Behn, Aphra: Oroonoko (State of the Nation)
✔ Bellow, Saul: The Adventures of Augie March (Comedy)
✔ Herzog (Family and Self)
✔ Humboldt's Gift (Family and Self)
✔ Bennett, Arnold: The Old Wives' Tale (Family and Self)
- Berger, John: G. (Family and Self)
- Bernhard, Thomas: Extinction (Family and Self)
- Bolaño, Roberto: The Savage Detectives (War and Travel)
- Bowen, Elizabeth: The Heat of the Day (Love)
✔ The Last September (State of the Nation)
✔ Brink, André: A Dry White Season (State of the Nation)
Broch, Hermann: The Death of Virgil (Family and Self)
✔ Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre (Love)
✔ Villette (Love)
- Shirley (State of the Nation)
✔ Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights (Love)
✔ Buchan, John: The 39 Steps (Crime)
✔ Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita (SFF)
✔ Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange (SFF)
Burney, Fanny: Evelina (Family and Self)
Burroughs, William: Naked Lunch (SFF)
Butler, Samuel: The Way of All Flesh (Family and Self)
- Erewhon (SFF)
✔ Byatt, A. S.: Possession (Love)
- The Virgin in the Garden (State of the Nation)

✔ Cain, James M.: The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime)
✔ Calvino, Italo: Invisible Cities (War and Travel)
✔ Camus, Albert: The Stranger/The Outsider (Family and Self)
✔ The Plague (State of the Nation)
✔ Canetti, Elias: Auto-da-Fé (War and Travel)
✔ Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's (Love)
✔ Carey, Peter: Oscar and Lucinda (Love)
Carpentier, Alejo: The Kingdom of This World (State of the Nation)
✔ Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (SFF)
✔ Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (SFF)
✔ Carter, Angela: Wise Children (Family and Self)
- The Passion of New Eve (SFF)
- Nights at the Circus (SFF)
✔ Cather, Willa: The Professor's House (Family and Self)
- Céline, Louis-Ferdinand: Journey to the End of the Night (War and Travel)
✔ Chabon, Michael: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (SFF)
✔ Chandler, Raymond: The Big Sleep (Crime)
✔ The Long Goodbye (Crime)
✔Chéng'en Wu: A Journey to the West (War and Travel)
✔ Childers, Erskine: The Riddle of the Sands (Crime)
✔Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre: Dangerous Liaisons (Love)
✔Chopin, Kate: The Awakening (Family and Self)
✔Christie, Agatha: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Crime)
Cocteau, Jean: Les Enfants Terribles (Family and Self)
Coe, Jonathan: What a Carve Up! (State of the Nation)
✔ Coetzee, J. M.: Waiting for the Barbarians (State of the Nation)
- Disgrace (State of the Nation)
✔ Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White (Crime)
- The Moonstone (Crime)
✔ Conrad, Joseph: The Secret Agent (Crime)
✔ Lord Jim (War and Travel)
✔ Heart of Darkness (War and Travel)
✔ Nostromo (War and Travel)

- Danielewski, Mark Z.: House of Leaves (SFF)
- de Beauvoir, Simone: The Mandarins (Family and Self)
✔ de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel: Don Quixote (Comedy)
✔ de La Fayette, Madame: The Princess of Clèves (Love)
✔ de Maupassant, Guy: Bel-Ami (State of the Nation)
✔ de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine: The Little Prince (SFF)
✔ Defoe, Daniel: Moll Flanders (State of the Nation)
✔ Robinson Crusoe (War and Travel)
- Roxana; or, The Fortunate Mistress (Family and Self)
✔ DeLillo, Don: Underworld (State of the Nation)
✔ White Noise (State of the Nation)
✔ di Lampedusa, Guiseppe Tomasi: The Leopard (State of the Nation)
✔ Dick, Philip K.: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (SFF)
✔ Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities (State of the Nation)
✔ Bleak House (State of the Nation)
✔ Hard Times (State of the Nation)
✔ Oliver Twist (State of the Nation)
✔ Great Expectations (Family and Self)
✔ Martin Chuzzlewit (Comedy)
Diderot, Denis: Jacques the Fatalist (Comedy)
✔ Didion, Joan: Play It As It Lays (State of the Nation)
Döblin, Alfred: Berlin Alexanderplatz (State of the Nation)
✔ Doctorow, E. L.: The Book of Daniel (State of the Nation)
Dos Passos, John: U.S.A. (State of the Nation)
✔ Dostoevsky, Fyodor: Crime and Punishment (Crime)
✔ Notes from the Underground (State of the Nation)
✔ The Brothers Karamazov (Family and Self)
✔ The Idiot (State of the Nation)
✔ Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Crime)
✔ Dreiser, Theodore: Sister Carrie (State of the Nation)
✔ du Maurier, Daphne: Rebecca (Love)
✔Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo (Crime)
✔ The Three Musketeers (War and Travel)
✔ Duras, Marguerite: The Lover (Love)
✔ Durrell, Lawrence: Justine (War and Travel)

- Eça de Queirós, José Maria de: The Crime of Father Amaro (Crime)
- Eco, Umberto: Foucault's Pendulum (SFF)
✔ The Name of the Rose (Crime)
✔ Edgeworth, Maria: Castle Rackrent (State of the Nation)
✔ Eliot, George: Adam Bede (Love)
- Daniel Deronda (Love)
✔ The Mill on the Floss (Love)
✔ Middlemarch (State of the Nation)
✔ Silas Marner (State of the Nation)
Ellis, Bret Easton: American Psycho (Crime)
✔ Ellison Ralph: Invisible Man (State of the Nation)
Elsschot, Willem: Cheese (Comedy)
✔ Endo, Shusaku: Silence (Family and Self)
✔ Enright, Anne: The Gathering (Family and Self)
✔ Eugenides, Jeffrey: Middlesex (Family and Self)
✔ The Virgin Suicides (Love)

✔Faber, Michel: Under the Skin (SFF)
✔Farrell, J. G.: The Siege of Krishnapur (War and Travel)
✔Faulkner, William: The Sound and the Fury (Family and Self)
Faulks, Sebastian: Birdsong (War and Travel)
Fielding, Henry: Joseph Andrews (Comedy)
✔ The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Comedy)
✔ Fitzgerald, F. Scott: Tender is the Night (Love)
✔ The Great Gatsby (Love)
✔ Flaubert, Gustave: Bouvard and Pécuchet (Comedy)
✔ Madame Bovary (Love)
- Sentimental Education (State of the Nation)
✔Fleming, Ian: Casino Royale (Crime)
✔Foer, Jonathan Safran: Everything is Illuminated (War and Travel)
✔ Fontane, Theodor: Effi Briest (State of the Nation)
Ford, Ford Madox: Parade's End (War and Travel)
✔ The Good Soldier (Love)
✔ Forster, E. M.: A Passage to India (State of the Nation)
✔ A Room with a View (Love)
✔ Howard's End (Family and Self)
✔ Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman
✔ The Magus (SFF)
✔ Franzen, Jonathan: The Corrections (State of the Nation)
Freud, Esther: Hideous Kinky (Family and Self)

Gaddis, William: The Recognitions (State of the Nation)
✔ Galsworthy, John: The Forsyte Saga (first book only) (Family and Self)
✔ Garcia Márquez, Gabriel: Love in the Time of Cholera (Love)✔- One Hundred Years of Solitude (War and Travel)
✔Gaskell, Elizabeth: North and South (State of the Nation)
✔ Mary Barton (Family and Self)
✔ Gibbon, Lewis Grassic: Sunset Song (Love)
✔ Gibbons, Stella: Cold Comfort Farm (Comedy)
✔ Gibson, William: Neuromancer (SFF)
Gide, André: Strait is the Gate (Love)
✔ The Counterfeiters (State of the Nation)
✔ The Immoralist (Family and Self)
✔ Gissing, George: New Grub Street (State of the Nation)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther (Love)
Gogol, Nikolay: Dead Souls (Comedy)
✔ Golding, William: Lord of the Flies (SFF)
✔ Rites of Passage (War and Travel)
✔ Goldsmith, Oliver: The Vicar of Wakefield (Family and Self)
Goncharov, Ivan: Oblomov (Comedy)
✔ Gordimer, Nadine: July's People (State of the Nation)
- Gorky, Maxim: Mother (State of the Nation)
✔ Grass, Günter: The Tin Drum (War and Travel)
✔ Green, Henry: Living (Love)
✔ Greene, Graham: Brighton Rock (Crime)
✔ The Third Man (Crime)
✔ The End of the Affair (Love)
✔ The Power and the Glory (Family and Self)
✔ Grossmith, George and Weedon: The Diary of a Nobody (Comedy)

✔ Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Comedy)
✔ Hall, Radclyffe: The Well of Loneliness (Love)
Hamilton, Patrick: Hangover Square (Crime)
Hammett, Dashiell: Red Harvest (Crime)
- The Glass Key (Crime)
✔ The Maltese Falcon (Crime)
✔ The Thin Man (Crime)
✔ Hamsun, Knut: Hunger (Family and Self)
✔ Hardy, Thomas: Far from the Madding Crowd (Love)
✔ Jude the Obscure (Love)
✔ Tess of the D'Ubervilles (Love)
✔ The Woodlanders (Love)
✔ The Mayor of Casterbridge (State of the Nation)
✔ Hartley, L. P.: The Go-Between (Love)
✔ Hašek, Jaroslav: The Good Soldier Švejk (War and Travel)
✔ Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Scarlet Letter (Love)
✔ The House of the Seven Gables (SFF)
✔ Heinlein, Robert A.: Stranger in a Strange Land (SFF)
✔ Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 (Comedy)
✔ Hemingway, Ernest: A Farewell to Arms (Love)
✔ For Whom the Bell Tolls (War and Travel)
✔ The Old Man and the Sea (Family and Self)
✔Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha (Family and Self)
✔ The Glass Bead Game (SFF)
✔ Highsmith, Patricia: The Talented Mr. Ripley (Crime)
Hines, Barry: A Kestrel for a Knave (State of the Nation)
✔ Høeg, Peter: Smilla's Sense of Snow (Crime)
Hogg, James: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (SFF)
✔ Hollinghurst, Alan: The Line of Beauty (State of the Nation)
- The Swimming-Pool Library (Love)
✔ Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables (State of the Nation)
✔Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World (SFF)
✔ Crome Yellow (Love)

✔ Irving, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany (Family and Self)
✔ Isherwood, Christopher: Goodbye to Berlin (State of the Nation)
✔ Ishiguro, Kazuo: The Remains of the Day (Love)
- The Unconsoled (SFF)

James, Henry: The Ambassadors (Family and Self)
✔ The Portrait of a Lady (Love)
✔ The Wings of the Dove (Love)
✔ The Turn of the Screw (SFF)
✔ Jelinek, Elfride: The Piano Teacher (Love)
Johnson, Samuel: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (War and Travel)
✔ Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Family and Self)
✔ Ulysses (Family and Self)
- Finnegans Wake (Comedy)

Kafka, Franz: The Castle (Comedy)
- The Trial (SFF)
✔ Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek (Love)
Kelman, James: How Late It Was, How Late (State of the Nation)
✔ Keneally, Thomas: Schindler's List/Schindler's Arc (War and Travel)
✔ Kennedy Toole, John: A Confederacy of Dunces (Comedy)
✔ Kerouac, Jack: On the Road (War and Travel)
✔ Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Family and Self)
✔ King, Stephen: The Shining (SFF)
✔ Kipling, Rudyard: Kim (Crime)
✔ Kundera, Milan: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Love)
✔ The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Love)
✔ Kureishi, Hanif: The Buddha of Suburbia (Family and Self
✔ Larsen, Nella: Passing (State of the Nation)
✔ Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers (Family and Self)
✔ Lady Chatterley's Lover (Love)
- The Rainbow (Love)
✔ Women in Love (Love)
✔Le Carré, John: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Crime)
✔ The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Crime)
✔ Le Fanu, Sheridan: Uncle Silas (SFF)
✔ Lee, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird (Crime)
✔ Lee, Laurie: Cider with Rosie (Family and Self)
✔ Lem, Stanislaw: Solaris (SFF)
✔ Leonard, Elmore: Get Shorty (Crime)

[Kristel]

continued
✔ Lessing, Doris: The Golden Notebook (Family and Self)
✔ The Grass is Singing (State of the Nation)
Levi, Primo: If Not Now, When? (War and Travel)
✔ Lewis, M. G.: The Monk (SFF)
Lewis, Sinclair: Babbitt (State of the Nation)
✔ Main Street (State of the Nation)
London, Jack: Martin Eden (Family and Self)
✔ The Call of the Wild (War and Travel)
✔ Lowry, Malcolm: Under the Volcano (Family and Self)

✔Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria: Dom Casmurro (Love)
✔ The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (State of the Nation)
✔MacInnes, Colin: Absolute Beginners (State of the Nation)
✔ Malouf, David: Remembering Babylon (State of the Nation)
Malraux, André: Man's Fate (War and Travel)
✔ Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (Family and Self)
✔ Death in Venice (Love)
✔ The Magic Mountain (State of the Nation)
Manzoni, Alessandro: The Betrothed (State of the Nation)
Marías, Javier: A Heart so White (Love)
✔ Maturin, Charles Robert: Melmoth the Wanderer (SFF)
- Maugham, W. Somerset: Cakes and Ale (Comedy)
✔ Of Human Bondage (Love)
McCabe, Patrick: The Butcher Boy (SFF)
✔ Cormac: All the Pretty Horses (War and Travel)
✔ Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West (War and Travel)
✔ McEwan, Ian: Atonement (Love)
✔ The Child in Time (Love)
- Enduring Love (Crime)
✔ McGahern, John: Amongst Women (State of the Nation)
✔ Melville, Herman: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (War and Travel)
Miller, Henry: Tropic of Cancer (Love)
✔ Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance (State of the Nation)
- Family Matters (Family and Self)
✔ Mitchell, David: Cloud Atlas (SFF)
✔ Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind (Love)
✔ Mitford, Nancy: Love in a Cold Climate (Love)
- The Pursuit of Love (Love)
Moravia, Alberto: The Time of Indifference (State of the Nation)
✔ Morrison, Toni: Beloved (SFF)
✔ Song of Solomon (Family and Self)
✔ The Bluest Eye (Family and Self)
✔ Murakami, Haruki: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (SFF)
✔ Murdoch, Iris: The Black Prince (Family and Self)
✔ Under the Net (Comedy)
✔ Musil, Robert: The Man Without Qualities (Family and Self)

Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada: or, Ardor – A Family Chronicle (SFF)
✔ Lolita (Love)
✔ Pale Fire (Comedy)
- Pnin (Comedy)
✔ Naipaul, V. S.: A Bend in the River (State of the Nation)
✔ Neale Huston, Zora: Their Eyes Were Watching God (Love)
✔ Némirovsky, Irene: Suite Française (War and Travel)
Nin, Anaïs: Delta of Venus (Love)
✔ Nooteboom, Cees: All Souls Day (Love)

✔O'Brien, Flann: At Swim-Two-Birds (Family and Self)
✔ The Third Policeman (SFF)
✔ Ondaatje, Michael: The English Patient (Love)
✔ Orwell, George: Animal Farm (State of the Nation)
✔ Burmese Days (War and Travel)
✔ 1984 (SFF)

✔ Pasolini, Pier Paulo: The Ragazzi (State of the Nation)
✔ Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago (Love)
✔ Paton, Alan: Cry, the Beloved Country (State of the Nation)
Pavese, Cesare: The Moon and the Bonfires (State of the Nation)
Peace, David: 1977 (Crime)
✔ Peake, Mervyn: Titus Groan (SFF)
✔ Perec, Georges: A Void (Comedy)
✔ Life – A User's Manual (Comedy)
✔ Plath, Sylvia: The Bell Jar (Family and Self)
✔ Powell, Anthony: A Dance to the Music of Time (Comedy)
✔ Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News (Family and Self)
✔ Proust, Marcel: Remembrance of Things Past (Family and Self)
✔ Puzo, Mario: The Godfather (Crime)
Pym, Barbara: Excellent Women (Comedy)
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (War and Travel)
✔ The Crying of Lot 49 (Crime)
- Vineland (State of the Nation)
- V. (Crime)
Rabelais, Françoise: Gargantua and Pantagruel (SFF)
✔ Radcliffe, Ann: The Mysteries of Udolpho (SFF)
✔ Remarque, Erich Maria: All Quiet on the Western Front (War and Travel)
✔ Rhys, Jean: Wide Sargasso Sea (Love)
✔ Richardson, Samuel: Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (Love)
- Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (Love)
✔ Rider Haggard, H.: King Solomon's Mines (War and Travel)
✔ Roth, Henry: Call it Sleep (Family and Self)
✔ Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March (State of the Nation)
✔ Roth, Philip: American Pastoral (State of the Nation)
✔ The Human Stain (State of the Nation)
- Portnoy's Complaint (Comedy)
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Julie; or, The New Eloise (Family and Self)
✔ Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things (Family and Self)
✔ Rushdi, Salman: Midnight's Children (State of the Nation)
- Shame (State of the Nation)
- The Satanic Verses (SFF)
✔ Sagan, Françoise: Bonjour Tristesse (Love)
Salinger, J. D.: The Catcher in the Rye (Family and Self)
✔ Sayers, Dorothy L.: Murder Must Advertise (Crime)
✔ Schlink, Bernhard: The Reader (Love)
Sciascia, Leonardo: To Each His Own (State of the Nation)
✔ Scott, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe (War and Travel)
✔ Sebald, W. G.: Austerlitz (War and Travel)
✔ The Rings of Saturn (War and Travel)
Self, Will: Great Apes (Comedy)
✔ How the Dead Live (SFF)
Selvon, Sam: The Lonely Londoners (State of the Nation)
Sembène, Ousmane: God's Bits of Wood (State of the Nation)
Serge, Victor: The Case of Comrade Tulayev (State of the Nation)
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy (Family and Self)
She, Lao: Rickshaw Boy (State of the Nation)
✔ Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft: Frankenstein (SFF)
✔ Shields, Carol: Unless (Family and Self)
✔ Shute, Nevil: A Town Like Alice (War and Travel)
✔ Sillitoe, Alan: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (State of the Nation)
✔ Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle (State of the Nation)
✔Singer, Isaac Bashevis: The Manor (Family and Self)
✔ Smith, Zadie: On Beauty (Family and Self)
✔ White Teeth (State of the Nation)
Smollett, Tobias George: The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Comedy)
- The Adventures of Roderick Random (Comedy)
- The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Comedy)
✔ Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (State of the Nation)
Spark, Muriel: The Driver's Seat (Comedy)
✔ The Girls of Slender Means (Comedy)
✔ The Prime of Miss Jean Brody (Comedy)
- Stead, Christina: The Man Who Loved Children (Family and Self)
✔ Steinbeck, John: Of Mice and Men (Crime)
✔ The Grapes of Wrath (State of the Nation)
✔ Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma (War and Travel)
✔ The Red and the Black (State of the Nation)
✔ Stephenson, Neal: Cryptonomicon (War and Travel)
Sterne, Laurence: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (War and Travel)
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Comedy)
✔ Stevenson, Robert Louis: Kidnapped (War and Travel)
✔ Treasure Island (War and Travel)
✔ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (SFF)
✔ Stoker, Bram: Dracula (SFF)
✔ Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom's Cabin (State of the Nation)
Strindberg, August: The Red Room (State of the Nation)
✔ Süskin, Patrick: Perfume – The Story of a Murderer (Crime)
Svevo, Italo: Zeno's Conscience/Confessions of Zeno (Family and Self)
✔ Swift, Graham: Waterland (Love)
✔ Swift, Jonathan: A Tale of a Tub (Comedy)
✔ Gulliver's Travels (War and Travel)

Tagore, Rabindranath: The Home and the World (State of the Nation)
✔ Tartt, Donna: The Secret History (Crime)
✔ Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair (State of the Nation)
✔ Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again (SFF)
✔ The Lord of the Rings (SFF)
✔ Tolstoy, Leo: Anna Karenina (Love)
✔ War and Peace (War and Travel)
Tressel, Robert: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (State of the Nation)
✔ Trollope, Anthony: The Last Chronicle of Barset (State of the Nation)
✔ Turgenev, Ivan: Fathers and Sons (Family and Self)
✔ Twain, Mark: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (War and Travel)

✔ Updike, John: Rabbit, Run (Family and Self)
✔ Rabbit Redux (Family and Self)
✔ Rabbit is Rich (Family and Self)

Vassilikos, Vassilis: Z (State of the Nation)
✔ Verne, Jules: Around the World in Eighty Days (War and Travel)
✔ Journey to the Centre of the Earth (War and Travel)
✔ Voltaire: Candide (War and Travel)
✔ Vonnegut, Kurt Jr.: Breakfast of Champions (Comedy)
✔ Slaughterhouse-Five (War and Travel)

✔ Walker, Alice: The Color Purple (Family and Self)
✔ Wallace, David Foster: Infinite Jest (Comedy)
✔ Walpole, Horace: The Castle of Otranto (SFF)
Warner, Alan: Morvern Callar (Family and Self)
Waterhouse, Keith: Billy Liar (State of the Nation)
✔ Waters, Sarah: Fingersmith (Crime)
✔ Waugh, Evelyn: A Handful of Dust (Comedy)
✔ Decline and Fall (Comedy)
✔ Vile Bodies (Comedy)
✔ Webb, Charles: The Graduate (Love)
✔ Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine (SFF)
✔ The War of the Worlds (SFF)
✔ Tono-Bungay (Comedy)
Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting (State of the Nation)
✔ West, Rebecca: The Return of the Soldier (State of the Nation)
✔ Wharton, Edith: The Age of Innocence (Love)
✔ The House of Mirth (State of the Nation)
White, Patrick: The Tree of Man (Family and Self)
- Voss (State of the Nation)
✔White, T. H. The Once and Future King (first book only) (SFF)
✔ Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Family and Self)
✔ Winterson, Jeanette: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Family and Self)
✔The Passion (Love)
✔ Wodehouse, P. G.: Thank You, Jeeves (Comedy)
✔ Wolfe, Tom: The Bonfire of the Vanities (State of the Nation)
✔ Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway (Family and Self)
✔ Orlando (SFF)
✔ To the Lighthouse (Family and Self)
Wright, Richard: Native Son (Crime)
✔ Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids (SFF)
✔ The Midwich Cuckoos (SFF)

✔ Zamyatin, Yevgeny: We (SFF)
✔ Zola, Émile: Germinal (State of the Nation)
- The Beast Within/La Bête humaine (State of the Nation)
✔ Thérèse Raquin (Crime)